[Parted-maintainers] Bug#605759: [s390/hercules] disk partitioning failed: no /dev/dsda1

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 09:00:10AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:04:39PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> > This looks a fairly plausible theory, and the outcome is even more
> > interesting, search for DASD in git log libparted/arch/linux.c.  As I
> > understand it, 9fa0e180 may even fix this problem.
> 
> Thanks! The patch applies cleanly to 2.3-4, and I can confirm that the
> it fixes the issue completely for me.
> 
> (For the sake of completeness: I built the modified parted on zelenka.d.o
>  without the build dependencies libblkid-dev and check. They don't seem
>  to matter in this case.)
> 
> I'm attaching the patch for convenience and reassigning this to parted.
> Setting the severity to 'serious' as it looks like this breaks d-i on
> s390 for everybody and not just hercules users.
> 
> Parted maintainers: feel free to downgrade if this is inflated, and
> please let me know if I can help further in any way.

Thanks for spotting this.  I agree with the severity, and am preparing
an updated package now.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]